227 hours out of 2080 hours in the year? wow
What caused the number of sick days to fall so far?
What caused the number of sick days to fall so far?
Most paid Firemen that I know have at least 2 jobs.
Union thugs strike again.
Just like the firefighter crooks here in Contra Costa County, California. When you look at county pay over $100,000 it’s in two areas: 1) County Hospital Doctors ( most of whom you can’t pronounce their names) and 2) firefighters. Of the top ten pensions in the county seven of them are former fire chiefs and four of the seven are from one small district in the county. Firefighters base pay is over $100,000 per year but most are taking how at least double that figure. Union firefighters are clearly the biggest crooks in the PE ranks. And, here’s the kicker, these a$$holes get to retire at 50, so we end up paying them in retirement on average for more years than they worked!
Let me get this right; Battalion Chiefs —the men who set the tone, show leadership and a model of “how it’s to be done” —these men took an AVERAGE of 160 hours of sick leave PER YEAR...?
For a typical job that would be 20 days off per year for being sick...!!!!
Has anyone heard of benefits more lavish than this?
OMG...!!!
Can you say ‘tip of the iceberg’
I know our state employees here in Idaho used to use sick leave as extra vacation time. The guy I know worked for the liquor store. Towards the end of the year they’d take turns calling in sick.
They looked at it as a “use it or lose it” deal. A benefit they were fully entitled to take.
Sick leave is supposed to be used so you don’t have to work when you are actually sick! Also, so you can’t be fired for getting sick and being unable to work. For as hard as those guys worked, the actual vacation time we gave them was more than fair.
That was pretty common all over but probably less so in the private sector. Lots of governments and businesses are cracking down on that kind of abuse. I know my company has.
I’m hard core. Only three sick days in five years and they were all legit. I actually went 10 years once without calling in. I only got 24 hour bugs over the weekend twice in all that time.